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Saturday, March 10, 2018

Henry Kissinger: Obama withdrew America from international politics. Because of the vacuum Obama created, Trump has opportunity for remarkable foreign policy accomplishments-Politico, Dec. 2016...(Obama's June 4, 2009 Cairo speech can be read as the manifesto for a post-America world-Quadrant)

"The strange case of the 44th President of the
United States becomes more curious by the day. From as early as August
2010, according to Mark Steyn, Barack Obama began denouncing “groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity”.
Shortly thereafter the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) waged a covert
war against any American organisation with “Tea Party”,“Patriot” or
“Constitution” in its title. Richard M. Nixon’s dastardly Committee for
the Re-election of the President (CREEP) seems rather innocuous compared
to the Obama courtiers who set the IRS dogs onto political opponents.

There was always the hope Obama
might learn something about the limitations of his Muslim Outreach
after the unfortunate turn of events in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, but
not even the Benghazi fiasco seems to have cured The Oneof his hubris.Only last week he appointed Susan Rice, the Bagdad Bob of Benghazi, as
his National Security Adviser. This was, unfortunately, entirely
consistent with his decision six months ago to make John Kerry the new
Secretary of State....

How to make sense of Team Obama’s disconnect with
reality?

The key to understanding Obama’s modus operandi is the dogma of
the New Left.This radical creed, along with

President Obama’s Cairo Address could almost have been written by a
Muslim Brotherhood scribe, blaming as he did the anti-West “tensions” in
the Muslim world on European colonialism and Cold War machinations that
treated Muslim-majority countries as “proxies without regard to their
own aspirations”. Additionally, American-style “modernity and
globalisation” caused “many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the
traditions of Islam”. The only thing omitted from his mea culpa
was Christendom’s involvement in the Crusades. It was, naturally, Islam
that paved the way “for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment”."...

The
guidance’s frameworks “highlight the importance of complying with
nondiscrimination requirements of civil rights statutes, addressing the
needs of the whole community, and ensuring equal opportunity to access
recovery efforts.”

“[E]verywhere you look
you can find black folks and white folks loving on each other, helping
each other through this crisis,” Mr. Dreher said in a Thursday post.

He
referred to the guidance as a “long bureaucratic memo” issued by the
“Department of Justice and many other agencies of the executive branch
overseen by He Who Cannot Be Troubled to Leave Martha’s Vineyard.”...

More than 40,000 homes were damaged during the
flooding, sparked by thunderstorms and a low-pressure system that began
Aug. 5, which the Red Cross has described as the worst natural disaster
since Superstorm Sandy in 2012."

Yet, those planning for Katrina appeared
to assume most people could rely on personal vehicles to evacuate and
failed to consider the transportation needs of all segments of the
population. Identifying the needs of the transit-dependent community
and then addressing those needs in emergency planning can reduce or
eliminate racial and ethnic, as well as economic, disparities in
emergency response and recovery activities.

Nondiscriminatory access to housing
and shelters in the aftermath of Katrina also posed a major challenge
for diverse racial and ethnic communities. Many seeking temporary
housing immediately encountered discriminatory rental advertisements
that explicitly refused to rent to African Americans.12 For example,
an advertisement on a website designed to reach Katrina evacuees read:
“Provider will provide room and board for $400 but prefers two white
females.”

Evidence collected by fair housing
testers found that in 66% of all tests, White persons were favored over
African American persons seeking housing using contacts available to
Katrina evacuees. 13

A federal court found evidence of intentional discrimination in actions by St. Bernard Parish, which neighbors New Orleans,
when the parish sought to restrict rental housing opportunities,
including actions to halt the development of rental housing and enacting
a permit requirement for single-family rentals that exempted renters
who were “related by blood” to the homeowners.

Additionally, the parish changed zoning rules to reduce the availability of rental housing, which was widely perceived in the parish as being planned to house African Americans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Because of these actions, the parish faced a HUD-initiated investigation, a DOJ lawsuit, and several private lawsuits alleging violations of the Fair Housing Act and it ultimately paid more than $5 million in damages and attorneys' feesto settle the cases. 14"...